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A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

A selfish man is a thief.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.